Tanika Raychaudhuri received Best Book in Race, Ethnicity, and Representation Award from APSA's Race, Ethnicity and Politics (REP) Section.
Taylor Damann & Jae-Hee Jung received a funding award from the Center for Computational Insights on Inequality and Society (CIISR), Rice University for their work titled "“Sexual Violence During Conflict and War: Narratives from Ukrainian Newspapers.”
Steven Perry received the Brown Teaching Grant (Rice University). Grant title is “Crowdsourcing the Rice Data Vis Compendium.”
2024-2025
Matthew Tyler received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his proposal titled "Statistical Solutions for Survey Measurement Errors."
Kaytlin Robinson received funding for "Mapping Militants Project" from the Office of Research Creative Ventures Fund, Rice University
Ashley Leeds was awarded the Rice University Faculty Award for University Service and Leadership
Erik Peterson received the Provost’s Award for Outstanding Early Career Faculty Achievement, Rice University
Bob Stein received the Y. Ping Sun Award for Outstanding Community Engagement, Rice University
Randy Stevenson received the Dean’s Distinguished Research Award from the School of Social Sciences, Rice University
2023-2024
Martha Crenshaw and Kaitlyn Robinson's research proposal, “How Organizational Dynamics in a Multi-Actor Environment Shape Terrorist Threats and CT Responses,” received a grant from the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Jaclyn Kaslovsky and Andrew Stone. “Ask and You May Receive: Earmark Requests and Allocations in the 117th and 118th Congresses” received a grant from the Center for Effective Lawmaking.
Connor Huff was awarded the International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations.
Rick Stoll received the Lifetime Advising Achievement Award from the Office of Academic Advising, Rice University.
Tanika Raychaudhuri,Neema Begum, Nicole Burrowes, Uditi Sen, and Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins's "Inter-minority coalition or conflict? Identity formation and inter-minority relations between Asian and Black communities in the UK and US." received a grant from the British Academy (Knowledge Frontiers)
Kaitlyn Robinson received a grant from the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE), U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence for her research, “How Organizational Dynamics in a Multi-Actor Environment Shape Terrorist Threats and CT Responses.”
Leslie Schwindt-Bayer's proposal “Incentivizing and Spotlighting Scientific Contributions in Legislative Studies” received funding from the National Science Foundation.
Robert M. Stein received a grant for “Exploring and Building a Conservative Pro-Democracy Movement” project from the University of California, San Diego and Houston Endowment.
Tanika Raychaudhuri,Tali Mendelberg and Anne McDonough received Time-sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences Lupia-Mutz Outstanding Publication Award for “The Political Effects of Opioid Addiction Frames.”
2022-2023
Schleiter, Petra, Jonathan Homola, and Margit Tavits's research, "The Behavioral and Attitudinal Effects of Voter ID in the UK" received Global Incubator Seed Grant
Tavits, Margit, Jonathan Homola, and Petra Schleiter's "The Behavioral and Attitudinal Effects of Voter ID in the UK" received John Fell OUP Research Fund
Schleiter Petra, Jonathan Homola, and Margit Tavits received ESRC Research Grant for “The effects of voter ID in the UK.”
Robert M. Stein's “The Evolving Election Administration Landscape Project” received a grant from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Keith Hamm received the Career Achievement Award from the State Politics and Policy section of the American Political Science Association.
Jaclyn Kaslovsky won the 2023 Kenneth A. Shepsle Prize for the best article in volume 3 of the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy for the article “Franchise Expansion and Legislative Representation in the Early United States” (co-authored with Stephen Ansolabehere and Michael Olson)
Robert M. Stein's “Mapping Election Administration and Election Science: A Supplement to Learning from Elections” received funding from Pew Charitable Trusts and MIT Election Data Sciences Lab
Robert M. Stein's “The Front Lines of Elections: Poll Workers in the New Election Administration Environment”, was funded by Pew Charitable Trusts and MIT Election Data Sciences Lab
2021-2022
Jonathan Homola, Connor Huff, and Michelle Torres received the Creative Ventures Workshop Development Fund from Rice University for “SoWEPS: Southern Workshop in Empirical Political Science.”
Liana Eustacia Reyes, Maria Aroca, Keith E. Hamm, Nancy Martorano Miller, and Ronald D. Hedlund received the Neal Tate Award for best paper presented at SPSA 2021 in judicial politics: “Transformative or Incremental? The Effect of Civil War on Constitutional Change.”
Bob Stein received funding for “The Front Lines of Elections: Poll Workers in the New Election Administration Environment,” Evolving Election Administration Landscape project from the Pew Charitable Trust and MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Jaclyn Kaslovsky was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award from the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association
Ashley Leeds received the Distinguished Mentor Award, International Collaboration Section from the American Political Science Association.
Leslie Schwindt-Bayer received the George H. Hallett Award for Political Power and Women’s Representation in Latin America
2020-2021
Matthew Hayes and Diana O'Brien receivedtheRice Race and Anti-Racism Research Fund for their proposal, "Media Bias in the Perceived Viability of BIPOC Candidates.”
Bob Stein received the Teaching Grant for POLI 416 from the Rice Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry.
Michelle Torres receivedtheRice Race and Anti-Racism Research Fund for her proposal, "Framing a Protest: Determinants and Effects of Visual Depictions of the Black Lives Matter Movement."
Diana O'Brien received an award for Best article published in 2019 in the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties for "Female Leaders and Citizens' Perceptions of Political Parties."
Leslie Schwindt-Bayer was awarded the Jewell-Loewenberg Prize for the best comparative politics article in Legislative Studies Quarterly for 2019 for “Constituent Demand and District-focused Legislative Representation”
Bob Stein received a grant from the National Science Foundation for his proposal, "The Integrity of Mail Voting in the 2020 Election.” (co-P.I.s Lonna Atkeson and Trey Hood).
Jonathan Homola was selected as a finalist for the Sohia Meyer Farb Prize for Teaching
Leslie Schwindt-Bayer was awarded the Excellence in Academic Advising award (Rice University).
Connor Huff received the SSRI Seed Money Grant from the School of Social Sciences for "The Consequences of US Military Segregation."
Rick Wilson received the faculty award for Excellence in Professional Service and Leadership (Rice University)
Hicks, Iliya and Bob Stein received BRIDGE Systemic Racism and Racial Inequality Seed Grant for their project, “Mathematical Techniques to Incorporate Fairness in Political Redistricting.”
Publications
2025-2026
Chiba, Daina, Jesse C. Johnson, and Brett Ashley Leeds, “What Does it Mean to be a Reliable Ally?” International Studies Quarterly
Chong, Chinbo and Tanika Raychaudhuri, “The Model Minority Stereotype and Republican Partisan Identification among Asian Americans.” Political Behavior.
Elia, Emily, Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, and Sofia Vera, “Corruption, Partisanship, and Voting: Lessons from a Survey Experiment during the Brazilian Presidential Election.” Survey Research Methods.
Guajardo, Gustavo and Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, “Corruption and Women’s Political Empowerment: How Corruption Affects Women’s Political Careers.” Book Chapter in Anti-Corruption Policy for Female Empowerment and Gender Equality, eds. Robert Gillanders and Giovanna Rodriguez-Garcia. Palgrave.
Lowande, Kenneth, “The End of the Revolution.” Political Studies Quarterly.
Perry, Steven and Matt Lamb, “Suiting up or speaking out: analyzing candidate appearance & message complexity as heuristics for voter evaluation.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.
Robinson, Kaitlyn, “Rebel purges and leader survival: maintaining power through purges in rebel organizations.” Journal of Peace Research.
Samet, Oren, Jennie Barker, and Susan Hyde, “Can Citizen Election Observation Increase Public Confidence in U.S. Elections?” AmericanJournal of Political Science.
Tyler, Matthew, D. Sunshine Hillygus, Matthew DeBell, Ted Brader, Shanto Iyengar, Daron Shaw, and Nicholas A. Valentino. “Why are surveys struggling to estimate vote shares?” American Journal of Political Science.
Erik Peterson, Allison M.N. Archer, Kishan Bhakta, Sho Izumisawa, “Indirect Influence: How Elite Attacks on Information Providers Affect Public Opinion Formation,” Journal of Politics.
Randy Stevenson, Philip Santoso and Seonghui Lee, “Heuristic Inference and the Left-Right: An Experimental Analysis of How Voters Form Their Left-Right Images of Parties, Cambridge Elements in Experimental Political Science
2024-2025
Raychaudhuri, Tanika, "The Social Roots of Asian American Partisanship: From Political Learning to Partisan Leanings," Oxford University Press
Kistner, Michael and Raychaudhuri, Tanika, “Immigration and Political Incorporation: Asian American Representation in State Legislatures,” State Politics and Policy Quarterly
Kumar, Rithika, “Left Behind or Left Ahead? Implications of Male Migration on Female Political Engagement in India” Journal of Politics
Peterson, Erik, Shannon McGregor and Ryan Block, “Election Denial as a News Coverage Dilemma” Political Communication
Peterson, Erik, Joshua P. Darr, Maxwell Allamong and Michael Henderson, “Can Americans’ Trust in Local News Be Trusted?” American Journal of Political Science
Chan, Nathan, and Raychaudhuri, Tanika, “Race, Diversity, and the Development of Political Views on College Campuses," Journal of Politics
2023-2024
CC Eckel, HG Hoover, EL Krupka, N Sinha, Wilson, Rick K “Using social norms to explain giving behavior” Experimental Economics
Eckel, Catherine and Nishita Sinha, Wilson, Rick K. "The Evolution of Preferences and Charitable Giving: A Panel Study of the University Years." Oxford Economic Papers
Grimmer, Justin, Michael C. Herron, and Matthew Tyler. “Evaluating a New Generation of Expansive Claims about Vote Manipulation.” Election Law Journal.
Erin Krupka, Hanna Hoover, Catherine Eckel, Tanya Rosenblat, Oluwagbemiga Oju, Wilson, Rick K. “Multiple social identities cloud norm perception: Responses to COVID-19 among university aged Republicans and Democrats” Frontiers in Behavioral Economics
Tyler, Matthew and Shanto Iyengar. “Testing the Robustness of the ANES Feeling Thermometer Indicators of Affective Polarization.” American Political Science Review.
Wilson, Rick K. Joshua Tucker and Victoria Shineman, “Guest Editor Introduction to a Special Issue in Honor of Becky Morton” Journal of Experimental Political Science
Crosson, Jesse and Kaslovsky, Jaclyn. “Do Local Roots Impact Washington Behaviors? District Connections and Representation in the U.S. Congress.” American Political Science Review.
Fang, Songying, Amy Myers Jaffe, Ted Loch-Temzelides, and Chiara Lo Prete. “Electricity Grids and Geopolitics: A Game-theoretic Analysis of the Synchronization of the Baltic States’ Electricity Networks with Continental Europe,” Energy Policy.
Fang, Songying, Soyoung Lee, and Xiaojun Li. “A Security-Economics Trade-off? Public Support for the Quad in South Korea,” Conditional Acceptance. Journal of East Asian Studies.
Hamel, Brian, Jan Leighley, and Robert Stein. “Why Making Voting Easier Isn’t Enough: Early Voting, Campaigns, and Voter Turnout." American Politics Research
Lonna Atkeson, Eli -Mckown-Dawson and Robert M. Stein. “The Costs of Voting and Voter Confidence,” Political Research Quarterly.
Cozza, Joseph F. “Trust the Process: Citizen Participation and Procedural Legitimacy in Constitutional Change,” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.
Gustavo, Guajardo and Leslie Schwindt-Bayer. “The Gendered Impact of Corruption Revelations: Unveiling the Role of Parties and Voters in Mexico.” American Political Science Review.
Johnson, Jesse C., Brett Ashley Leeds, and Burcu Savun. “Alliances and Civil War Intervention,” International Studies Quarterly.
Raychaudhuri, Tanika, Joshua Davidson, and Michael Jones-Correa, “Shared Space and Civic Engagement: Block Parties and Voter Turnout in Philadelphia,” Urban Affairs Review.
Robert M. Stein, Barry Burden, and 19 other co-authors. "Guardians at the Gates: Poll Worker Retention in a Challenging Election Environment,” Election Law Journal.
2022-2023
Elia, Emily, and Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, “Corruption Perceptions, Opposition Parties, and Reelecting Incumbents in Latin America,” Electoral Studies.
Fang, Songying and Xiaojun Li. “Southeast Asia under Great-Power Competition: Public Opinion about Hedging in the Philippines.” Journal of East Asian Studies.
Johnson, Martin and Robert M. Stein. “Mitigating the Turnout Effects of Bad Weather with Early Voting: 1948-2016,” American Politics Research.
Adam Liu, Xiaojun Li, and Songying Fang, “Unpacking “the West”: Divergence and Asymmetry in Chinese Public Attitudes toward Europe and the United States.” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs.
Oestman, Jared and Rick K. Wilson. “The Effect of Biased Peacekeepers on Building Trust,” Journal of Experimental Political Science.
Wilson, Rick K. and Catherine C. Eckel. “Attributions of Trust and Trustworthiness,” Political Behavior
Alizade, Jeyhun, Rafaela Dancygier, and Jonathan Homola, "Germany foiled a far-right coup attempt. It still has a right-wing problem," The Washington Post (Monkey Cage Blog).
Cozza, Joseph Francesco, William Blake, Amanda Friesen, and David Armstrong. “Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates,” American Political Science Review
Lonna Atkeson, Eli McKown-Dawson, M.V. Hood III and Robert M. Stein, “Voter Perceptions of Secrecy in the 2020 Election,” Election Law Journal.
Powell, Eleanor Neff, Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, and Gisela Sin, “Women in Legislative Studies: Improving Gender Equality,” PS: Political Science & Politics
Santoso, Lie Philip, Randolph Stevenson, and Simon Weschle, “What Drives Perceptions of Partisan Cooperation?” Political Science Research and Methods
Tavits, Margit, Petra Schleiter, Jonathan Homola, and Dalston Ward. “Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes.” American Political Science Review
Guajardo, Gustavo and Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, “Women’s Representation and Corruption: Evidence from Local Audits in Mexico,” Comparative Political Studies
Henn, Soeren and Connor Huff, “The Local Memory of Repression and Who Fights,” World Politics
2021-2022
Homola, Jonathan, Jon C. Rogowski, Betsy Sinclair, Michelle Torres, Patrick D. Tucker, and Steven W. Webster. “Through the Ideology of the Beholder: How Ideology Shapes Perceptions of Partisan Groups,” Political Science Research and Methods.
Ansolabehere, Stephen, Jaclyn Kaslovsky, and Michael Olson. “Franchise Expansion and Legislative Representation in the Early United States.” Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy.
Banuri, Sheheryar, Catherine C. Eckel, Rick K. Wilson. “Does Cronyism Pay?: Costly Ingroup Favoritism in the Lab.” Economic Inquiry.
Kaslovsky, Jaclyn and Andrew R. Stone. “Biden vowed to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court. It might be good politics,” The Washington Post (Monkey Cage Blog).
Hayes, Matthew, Cara Wong, Andrew J. Bloeser, Mark M. Fredrickson, and Chera A. LaForge. “Elected Officials, Empowered Voters: The Impact of Descriptive Representation on Voter Turnout,” Political Behavior
Homola, Jonathan, Huff,Connor, Nishimura, Yui, and Times, Amorae, “The Gendered Legacies of the Frontier and Military Enlistment Behavior,” Journal of Historical Political Economy.
Huff, Connor, “Counterinsurgency Tactics, Rebel Grievances, and Who Keeps Fighting,” American Political Science Review.
Stoll, RichardJ., Richard C. Eichenberg, and Mary-Kate Lizotte, “The Impact of Personal Security Dispositions on Citizen Support for the Pursuit of Gender Equality in US Foreign Policy,” Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Rick K. Wilson, Catherine C. Eckel and Sora Youn. “In-group Favoritism in Natural and Minimal Groups,” Economic Letters.
2020-2021
Betz, Tim, David Fortunato, and Diana Z. O’Brien, “Women’s Descriptive Representation and Gendered Import Tax Discrimination,” American Political Science Review
Cohen, Dara Kay, Connor Huff, and Schub, Robert, "At War and at Home: The Consequences of US Women Combat Casualties," Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Fortunato, David, Nick C.N. Lin, Stevenson, Randolph T., and Mathias Wessel Tromborg, “Attributing Policy Influence Under Coalition Governance,” American Political Science Review.
Hayes, Matthew, David Fortunato, and Matthew V. Hibbing, "Race-Gender Bias in White Americans’ Preferences for Gun Availability," Journal of Public Policy
Huff, Connor and Schub, Robert, "Segregation, Integration, and Death: Evidence From the Korean War," International Organization
Schwindt-Bayer, Leslie A., Agustín Vallejo, and Francisco Cantú, “Gender and Family Ties in Latin American Legislatures,” Politics & Gender
Tromborg, Mathias and Schwindt-Bayer, Leslie, “A Clarity Model of District Representation: District Magnitude and Pork Priorities.” Legislative Studies Quarterly.
Charles R. Hunt, Jaclyn J. Kettler, Michael J. Malbin, Brendan Glavin, and Keith E. Hamm, “Assessing Group Incentives, Independent Spending, and Campaign Finance Law by Comparing the States,” Election Law Journal.
Edry, Jessica, Jesse C. Johnson, and Brett Ashley Leeds, “Threats at Home and Abroad: Interstate War, Civil War, and Alliance Formation,” International Organization
Homola, Jonathan, “The Effects of Women's Descriptive Representation on Government Behavior,” Legislative Studies Quarterly
Torres, Michelle, and Francisco Cantú. “Learning to See: Convolutional Neural Networks for the Analysis of Social Science Data,” Political Analysis
Armstrong, Brenna, Tiffany D. Barnes, Diana Z. O’Brien, and Michelle M. Taylor- Robinson. “Corruption, Accountability, and Women’s Access to Power,” Journal of Politics.
Eichenberg, Richard C., Mary-Kate Lizotte and Stoll, Richard J., “Socialized to Safety? The Origins of Gender Difference in Personal Security Dispositions,” Political Psychology
Jones, Colin and Stein, Robert M., “Recruiting persons to work the polls,” Election Law Journal.
Atsusaka, Yuki and Stevenson, Randolph, “A Bias-Corrected Estimator for the Crosswise Model with Inattentive Respondents,” Political Analysis
Hirano, Shigeo, Kaslovsky, Jaclyn, Olson, Michael, and Snyder, Jim, “The Growth of Campaign Advertising in the U.S., 1880 to 1930,” Journal of Politics
Kaslovsky, Jaclyn, “Senators at Home: Local Attentiveness and Policy Representation in Congress,” American Political Science Review.
Kaslovsky, Jaclyn and Rogowski, Jon, “Under the Microscope: Gender and Accountability in the U.S. Congress,” American Political Science Review
Leeds, Brett Ashley and Mattes, Michaela, "Domestic Interests, Democracy, and Foreign Policy Change," Elements in International Relations Series
Whitt, Sam, Wilson, Rick K., and Mironova, Vera, "Inter-group contact and out-group altruism after violence," Journal of Economic Psychology 86
Vallejo, Agustín, Haime, Agustina, and Schwindt-Bayer, Leslie A., “Candidate Experience and Electoral Success,” Latin American Research Review
Other Achievements
2025-2026
Alec Arellano was selected to participate in a teaching and learning symposium on civic education and America's 250th, organized by the American Political Science Association (APSA) in collaboration with Georgetown University's Civic Education Research Lab (CERL).
Steven Perry has been elected to serve a 5-year term on the executive board of the Southwest Political Science Association.
Kaytlin Robinson was selected to participate in the W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow program by the Hoover Institution. She will be in residence at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 2026-2027.
2023-2024
Tanika Raychaudhuri is elected to serve on the APSA Elections Public Opinion and Voting Behavior Section Executive Council (2024-2026) and Public Opinion Program Chair (2025)
2021-2022
Brett Ashley Leeds was named co-Editor-in-Chief of International Organization for a term from July 1, 2022-June 30, 2027
Randy Stevenson was named co-Editor of the new Cambridge University Press Series: Elements in Comparative Political Behavior.
